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Zhdanov VP. Simulations of oxidation of metal nanoparticles with a grain boundary inside. REACTION KINETICS MECHANISMS AND CATALYSIS 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11144-020-01818-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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AbstractThe generic 2D lattice Monte Carlo simulations presented herein are focused on the spatio-temporal kinetics of oxidation of metal nanoparticles composed of two grains separated by a single grain boundary. The oxidation is assumed to occur via inward diffusion of interstitial oxygen ions in the oxide. The results of simulations illustrate that the regimes of oxidation can range from one where the presence of grains is negligible and the oxide shell is formed at the periphery of a whole nanoparticle to one where each grain is oxidized almost independently.
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Albinsson D, Nilsson S, Antosiewicz TJ, Zhdanov VP, Langhammer C. Heterodimers for in Situ Plasmonic Spectroscopy: Cu Nanoparticle Oxidation Kinetics, Kirkendall Effect, and Compensation in the Arrhenius Parameters. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2019; 123:6284-6293. [PMID: 30906496 PMCID: PMC6428146 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b00323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Revised: 02/14/2019] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The ability to study oxidation, reduction, and other chemical transformations of nanoparticles in real time and under realistic conditions is a nontrivial task due to their small dimensions and the often challenging environment in terms of temperature and pressure. For scrutinizing oxidation of metal nanoparticles, visible light optical spectroscopy based on the plasmonic properties of the metal has been established as a suitable method. However, directly relying on the plasmonic resonance of metal nanoparticles as a built-in probe to track oxidation has a number of drawbacks, including the loss of optical contrast in the late oxidation stages. To address these intrinsic limitations, we present a plasmonic heterodimer-based nanospectroscopy approach, which enables continuous self-referencing by using polarized light to eliminate parasitic signals and provides large optical contrast all the way to complete oxidation. Using Au-Cu heterodimers and combining experiments with finite-difference time-domain simulations, we quantitatively analyze the oxidation kinetics of ca. 30 nm sized Cu nanoparticles up to complete oxidation. Taking the Kirkendall effect into account, we extract the corresponding apparent Arrhenius parameters at various extents of oxidation and find that they exhibit a significant compensation effect, implying that changes in the oxidation mechanism occur as oxidation progresses and the structure of the formed oxide evolves. In a wider perspective, our work promotes the use of model-system-type in situ optical plasmonic spectroscopy experiments in combination with electrodynamics simulations to quantitatively analyze and mechanistically interpret oxidation of metal nanoparticles and the corresponding kinetics in demanding chemical environments, such as in heterogeneous catalysis.
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- David Albinsson
- Department
of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department
of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department
of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
- Boreskov
Institute of Catalysis, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department
of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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Zhdanov VP. Kirkendall effect in the two-dimensional lattice-gas model. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:012132. [PMID: 30780238 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.012132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Customarily, the Kirkendall effect is associated with the vacancy-mediated balance of diffusion fluxes of atoms at the interface between two metals. Nowadays, this effect attracts appreciable attention due to its crucial role in the formation of various hollow nanoparticles via oxidation of metal nanocrystallites. The understanding of the physics behind this effect in general and especially in the case of nanoparticles is still incomplete due to abundant complicating factors. Herein, the Kirkendall effect is illustrated in detail at the generic level by performing two-dimensional (2D) lattice Monte Carlo simulations of diffusion of A and B monomers with attractive nearest-neighbor interaction for times up to 10^{7} Monte Carlo steps. Initially, A monomers are considered to form a close-packed array, while B monomers are in the 2D-gas state. The A-B interaction is assumed to be stronger compared to the other interactions, so that thermodynamically the c(2×2) A-B phase is preferable compared to the close-packed A phase (as in the case of metal oxidation). Depending on the relative rate of the diffusion jumps of A and B monomers, the patterns observed at the late stage of the formation of the mixed phase are shown to range from a single array without voids to those with appreciable disintegration of the initial array. In this way, the model predicts a single array with numerous small voids, a few moderate voids, or a single large void inside.
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- Vladimir P Zhdanov
- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden and Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Alekseeva S, Fanta ABDS, Iandolo B, Antosiewicz TJ, Nugroho FAA, Wagner JB, Burrows A, Zhdanov VP, Langhammer C. Grain boundary mediated hydriding phase transformations in individual polycrystalline metal nanoparticles. Nat Commun 2017; 8:1084. [PMID: 29057929 PMCID: PMC5651804 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00879-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Grain boundaries separate crystallites in solids and influence material properties, as widely documented for bulk materials. In nanomaterials, however, investigations of grain boundaries are very challenging and just beginning. Here, we report the systematic mapping of the role of grain boundaries in the hydrogenation phase transformation in individual Pd nanoparticles. Employing multichannel single-particle plasmonic nanospectroscopy, we observe large variation in particle-specific hydride-formation pressure, which is absent in hydride decomposition. Transmission Kikuchi diffraction suggests direct correlation between length and type of grain boundaries and hydride-formation pressure. This correlation is consistent with tensile lattice strain induced by hydrogen localized near grain boundaries as the dominant factor controlling the phase transition during hydrogen absorption. In contrast, such correlation is absent for hydride decomposition, suggesting a different phase-transition pathway. In a wider context, our experimental setup represents a powerful platform to unravel microstructure-function correlations at the individual-nanoparticle level.
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- Svetlana Alekseeva
- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 412 96, Sweden
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- Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark, Fysikvej, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark.,Department of Microtechnology and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Ørsteds Pl., 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 412 96, Sweden.,Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2c, Warsaw, 02-097, Poland
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- Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark, Fysikvej, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark, Fysikvej, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 412 96, Sweden.,Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 412 96, Sweden.
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